Adult bilingual literacy programme

Vision & Mission

The vision of NNLPI is to see ethno-linguistic communities actively participating in their own development and fully engaged in national life. The transformation of ethnic communities will enr ich individual lives and also contribute to justice and inclusiveness in the country of Nepal.
Our mission is to work alongside the many unique ethno-linguistic communities in Nepal, to be self-actuating and to contribute their strengths to benefit national life. To bring that vision into reality, we partner with like-minded organizations and individuals to provide language development and educational opportunities, both formal and non-formal, to ethno-linguistic communities who share a vision for their own development. Mother tongue based education is the starting point for our efforts.

Our Projects

Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE)

Literacy

Project Overview NNLPI works with local language communities to provide opportunity...

Language Development

NNLPI works among ethno-linguistic communities to do needs assessment, orthography...

Survey

Sociolinguistic survey is the first step of understanding the situation of...

Some of the success stories

Transferring writing skills across languages

Prabin Tamang, Math teacher of Chyampra Devi Secondary School, participated in the Grade 2 Western Tamang mother tongue language subject material production workshop in Oct 2018. At the end of the workshop, he was excited to see Tamang children reading materials being developed by Tamang people and he could be a part...

When love goes beyond language boundary

Miss Sangita Tamang Neupane is one of the kindergarten teachers from Shree Dongden Devi Secondary School, where the Western Tamang MTB-MLE programme is implemented. She came to the Tipling village eight years ago after getting married to her Western Tamang husband. Her love for her husband extends to the Western Tamang language...

I can speak Nepali now

When I was in KG class I could not speak any Nepali, but I could learn and understand because teacher taught us using Rajbanshi language. As I progressed up the grades, I could gradually speak Nepali. Whenever there are guests visiting the school, I could speak to them in Nepali easily now....

Education and hope

Rishidev community is living in a Rajbanshi village near Bishnu School. They speak Rajbanshi language but their culture is different from Rajbanshi. Most of the people from this community are illiterate. They did not care about education for their children. Every year they enrolled their children in government school in order to...